Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale pretends to fear that she has been deceived in underestimating the strength of the Princeton and Harvard foot-ball teams. The News says: "A letter from a Harvard man says that their team did not exert themselves at all with the Techs. for fear that Yale would get too correct an estimate of their strength. In the newspaper reports of their games they are careful to allow few complimentary remarks to steal in. Yet all this while they are working as they never worked before; they are straining every fibre of strength that the college can boast, and when...
...interest here in Cambridge. The concerts, it is needless to say, will be exceptionally good ones, and we advise all who have not yet procured tickets to do so at once. If the support given to the project this year is not more hearty than it was last, we fear that a third attempt will hardly be made...
...correspondent from '86, who takes exceptions to the HERALD'S report of the visit of some forty freshmen to the theatre last Thursday evening, has, we fear, entirely mistaken our meaning in that article. It was certainly furthest from our purpose to interfere unwarrantably in the private pleasure or business of any student or body of students of the freshman class. Our aim was entirely philanthropic and patriotic, and in exercising a certain scrutiny in the manner complained of we acted with the best intent. In common with the entire body of upper class men, the HERALD considers...
...pulls three days in a week. Some of the men have yielded to the loud cry for the crew men to play on the foot-ball team, and Captain Hull, H. E. Folsom, and W. H. Hyndman are now practising. There is no little criticism, however, by those who fear that the risk of accident to them endangers Yale's boating chances next year...
Speaking of the Harvard Crimson the Acta says : "True, not much fear is to be entertained of the rivalry of the Advocate, for it is decidedly too Philadelphian in tone and is greatly in need of a firm stick from a long pin in the hands of an athletic sticker...